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N5966P

Piper PA-24-250

N5966P is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mr Dent INC, a corporation in Manheim, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
Serial number
24-1059
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1959
Cruising speed
135 mph
Transponder code
A7B6E9 (octal 51733351)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 29, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 29, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00342015

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mr Dent INC
Type
Corporation
Address
971 Park Hill Dr
Manheim, PA 17545-9741

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5966P, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mr Dent INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5966P according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5966P: Accident on September 6, 2014 at Mesa, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR14LA368Accident on September 6, 2014 at Mesa, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 24-250 · operated under 091

The failure of the right main landing gear (MLG) transmission mounting bracket coupled with the differential rigging of the two landing gear cables, which prevented the right MLG from moving to the down-and-locked position before landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14LA368 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data